Finishing is emotional because the books have been so wrapped up with my life. It's almost impossible not to finish and look back to where I was when I started.

…I was very lonely with it. It's not like being in a pop group, where at least there would be three or four other people who knew what it was like to be on the inside. Only I knew what it was like to be generating this world as it became bigger and bigger and bigger and more and more people were invested in it.

I can never write anything as popular again. Lightning does not strike in the same place twice.

–J.K. Rowling, finally ready to close the "Harry Potter" chapter of her life [via Forbes.com]